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Dumb Honkey

from Hip Hop Fantasy by Tor Hyams

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Featuring JAQ, this track is Master Tav's imagining he was a different color.

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Dumb Honkey
By Tor and David and JAQ

INTRO:
Have you heard about this new group? Uhhh…I think they’re, ah, Jewish and they’re called Chutzpah…they’re Jewish but I think they’re trying to sound black. Really, really I do!

VERSE:
This is master tav in the house (what up son)
You think I'm frontin' black well I only just begun
It's just how I talk as a matter of fact...besides
Too many racists to wanna be black

I'd be attacked
But would that give me the right
To rhyme like I do through the day and the night
It's aiiight this is just where I begin
Rhymin' ain't all about the color of your skin

It's like this
No It's not like that
It's the rat a tat tat of the hi hat
Cat, like a drop it's like be bop
You can never stop
You'll never take ma live cop
'Cause I be swingin'
Like a monkey in the jungle
Hip hoppin' rhymin' I never fumble

What's that? You you mean I can't say monkey
Sorry, I guess I'm just a dumb honkey

CHORUS:
Dumb Honkey Dumb
You're just a dumb honkey
Dumb Honkey Dumb
You're just a dumb honkey


You know, this hook they have…this dumb honkey thing…very catchy…ya know, it’s just the kind of thing that would get them played on urban radio…Ya mon!

VERSE:
Bad bad Caucasian
The wrong intimation
A sad manifestation of a racist nation
Patience before you know it we're gone
But the KKK still burns a cross on my lawn

Tolerance, shmolerance, non violence silence
Racist schmasist, makes it, it ain't shit
It's just words son that all sound the same
I'd same 'em all now but what's in a name

It makes me neurotic this ebonics, black phonics
I'd rather make a beat that phatty phattditty phat sonic
Like Dre did the Chronic I'm on it like funky
But no matter what I do I'm still just a dumb honkey

CHORUS:
Dumb Honkey Dumb
You're just a dumb honkey
Dumb Honkey Dumb
You're just a dumb honkey

Dumb honkey….
Dumb honkey…. (I told you, you shouldn’t have said monkey)

VERSE:
I'm rhymin' - climbing, double dutch timing
Survivin - revivin riiffin ' jivin'
My name is - fill in the blank
Step into battle and see how you rank

I'm rhyming faster than a hatter and
I'm madder when I'm gladder
All the girlie girls pitter patter
Flatter scatter batter batta

UP to the plate!
Where it all begins...
Weeeeeee
Everybody wins!

Genetic Semantics
Islamic Platonic
Tibetan Hindu or a Pakistani Jew
Yeah it's true
Tell em, J, Tell em, J, Tell em, J to the muthafucking Q

JAQ:
Well pink’s the new black and black’s the Jew
And Jew’s the new German (so who the fuck are you?)
Me? I’m JQ…hot ass sounds
Too brown to be white
Too white to be brown…yeah!

I’m a clown everybody dividin’
I ain’t tryin’ to be preachin’
I ain’t tryin’ to be guidin’
I’m just tellin’ it like it is
We all eat, sleep, shiut and die
I’m getting’ high and I try not to be

CHORUS:
Dumb Honkey Dumb
You're just a dumb honkey
Dumb Honkey Dumb
You're just a dumb honkey

Dumb honkey….
Dumb honkey….

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from Hip Hop Fantasy, released July 28, 2009

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Tor Hyams Los Angeles, California

Grammy® nominated songwriter and producer Tor Hyams has over 20 years of experience in the music, film and television industries, from writing and performing his own material to producing world-class recording artists, live music festivals for children, short films and digital programming, and composing dozens of scores for both film and television. ... more

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